Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Resumo Este artigo analisa a relação da produção de queijos artesanais em Minas Gerais com imposições da regulação sanitária, configuradas em instrumentos e mecanismos de biossegurança, conformados em mercados internacionais, que constroem uma imagem d…
Resumo As lógicas de biossegurança contemporâneas se baseiam em um modelo de pensamento derivado da estratégia militar. Não obstante, que concepções sobre a natureza mesma da guerra perpassam as reações sociais à presença de ameaças biológicas, como es…
Resumo A partir de uma pesquisa sobre os padrões epidemiológicos de leishmaniose tegumentar americana na Terra Indígena Wajãpi (AP), tomo como ponto de partida as perspectivas de alguns Wajãpi e de cientistas para explorar aspectos das ontologias em di…
Resumo Apesar de ter sua legitimidade contestada nas últimas décadas por defensores de animais, juristas e veterinários que defendem o direito à vida e ao tratamento, assim como por pesquisadores da área da saúde que duvidam de sua eficácia, a “eutanás…
Resumo Em diálogo com análises etnográficas sobre as relações humano-animal, este texto apresenta desdobramentos de um estudo que, por meio da observação da rotina de laboratórios de ciências biológicas e de entrevistas com biólogos, rastreou trabalhos…
Abstract This article describes prevention and preparedness as different techniques to conserve the past in order to anticipate the future. It relates the emergence of virology and ornithology to the places where samples are accumulated and classified….
Resumo Este artigo discute o massacre dos porcos crioulos que teve lugar na ilha de Espanhola, particularmente no Haiti, entre finais da década de 1970 e começo dos anos 1980. Combinando etnografia e análise historiográfica, discuto, primeiramente, a t…
Resumo Neste artigo faço uma retrospetiva dos estudos sobre epidemias a que me dediquei enquanto antropóloga, dando destaque a um fenómeno que interseta os interesses da antropologia da biossegurança e da história das plantações de açúcar e migrações l…
Horizontes Antropológicos
De la philologie à la sémantique historique en études ottomanes [Full text]
Erdal Kaynar
How Language Change Actually Took Place [Full text]
Marc Aymes
The…
In between 2016 and 2017, a number of terrorist attacks took place in public spaces in cities across Europe. Consequently, numerous concrete blocks were placed in the streets of Copenhagen in order to prevent similar attacks made with vehicles towards …
Although many corporations make claims about the newness of their products in order to make the public interested in purchasing them, not all of them make the same kind of claims. Whereas previous studies have highlighted claims to newness that are bas…
This article draws on work carried out as part of a collaboration between an elite business school and a family-owned multinational corporation, concerned with promoting ‘mutuality in business’ as a new frontier of responsible capitalism. While the bus…
In the contemporary neoliberal university, practice-based learning is increasingly necessary as a means to foster dynamic thinking and bolster student employability. However, for students who feel like customers, this type of ‘messy’ practical experien…
Middle Eastern Islamic banks’ contributions to product development in Malaysia have been frequently highlighted; nonetheless, there has been a research gap on the adaptation of foreign Islamic banks to the Malaysian market. This study examines this asp…
This article highlights how Anglophone anthropological studies of Japanese animation (anime) have overlooked its businesspeople (such as producers, investors, merchandisers, and entrepreneurs) by formulaically advocating anime creators and fans as crus…
From Ivory Towers to the Board Room: The Development of Anthropologists in Business
By use of an empirical example from a planned organizational change program within an international company, we examine how specific characteristics of objects (forms) used to represent ideas – in interaction with “hard-wired” aspects of human co…
Although many corporations make claims about the newness of their products in order to make the public interested in purchasing them, not all of them make the same kind of claims. Whereas previous studies have highlighted claims to newness that are bas…
This article draws on work carried out as part of a collaboration between an elite business school and a family-owned multinational corporation, concerned with promoting ‘mutuality in business’ as a new frontier of responsible capitalism. While the bus…
In the contemporary neoliberal university, practice-based learning is increasingly necessary as a means to foster dynamic thinking and bolster student employability. However, for students who feel like customers, this type of ‘messy’ practical experien…
Middle Eastern Islamic banks’ contributions to product development in Malaysia have been frequently highlighted; nonetheless, there has been a research gap on the adaptation of foreign Islamic banks to the Malaysian market. This study examines this asp…
This article highlights how Anglophone anthropological studies of Japanese animation (anime) have overlooked its businesspeople (such as producers, investors, merchandisers, and entrepreneurs) by formulaically advocating anime creators and fans as crus…
From Ivory Towers to the Board Room: The Development of Anthropologists in Business
By use of an empirical example from a planned organizational change program within an international company, we examine how specific characteristics of objects (forms) used to represent ideas – in interaction with “hard-wired” aspects of human co…